Have you ever traveled beyond the continental United States?

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But it would take me awhile to recall all the trips. A house fire in 2007 destroyed passports I'd held since the early '80's when I made my first trip to Europe. I'd been in Mexico and Hawaii prior to that, and then began taking Caribbean cruises. My second husband, whom I married in 1985, loved to travel, and we did a lot. Our honeymoon was a month driving around France. We were married for 32 years and probably averaged at least 1-2 trips out of the Continental US every year, even when the boys were little. Our oldest son took his first steps at 10 months when we were on a trip to England with him. He had a Polish babysitter who stayed with him who was working in our London hotel for the summer before she would return to Poland to start med school in the fall. We took her with us on one day trip to Oxford.
We went to look at New Zealand in 1994 as a possible place to relocate and stopped in Hawaii, both coming and going. We owned property in Panama during Shrub's second term and we scouted Belize prior to deciding to buy in Panama. I've been in Canada half a dozen times: our 10th anniversary was in Montreal and Quebec; another time we took the marvelous Canada by rail trip from Toronto to Vancouver.
I continued to travel abroad on my own after my husband died in 2018, up until Covid; I was on Bonaire in March 2020 when Covid hit. I've only been out of the country once since 2020 and find that the idea of traveling alone in my '70's isn't as appealing as it once was, although I probably will renew my passport before it expires in 2026.